Khaled Hosseini
63 quotes
Biography
"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
"For you, a thousand times over"
"I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us."
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
"There is a way to be good again..."
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
"I will follow you to the ends of the world."
"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir"
"In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things."
"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
"The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little."
"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold."
"and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan."
"If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."
"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."
"It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out."
"At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , "he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)"
"Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва."
"A man ... found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms."
"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."